Nova Reimagined Snow

The mod publishes two textures that a shader samples in world space to decide whether a surface receives the snow treatment. The eligibility texture marks exact snow-biome boundaries per block column, so snow tinting stops at the edge of a biome instead of bleeding into neighboring warm biomes, and it is suppressed in the Nether and End. Its size follows the render distance, and the allocation is recalculated mid-session when the render distance changes.

Snow surface textures from active resource packs are resolved and published under stable identifiers, up to four variants, and the shader hashes each world position to assign one variant across the terrain. Distant Horizons material textures are handled the same way, so distant terrain can follow resource-pack art. Required dependencies are Fabric API and Nova Reimagined, and the shader keeps working without this mod, falling back to its plain inSnowy check.

Players add it to their own game, and a server needs no copy. The code is open source under the MIT License, and Fabric files exist for 1.21 – 1.21.11, with 1.0.3 for 1.21.11 as the latest file, published 2026-04-26.